Connor Franta Quotes

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I own a Canon 20D, though I don't remember the last time I used it. Ever since the iPhone 4, I've been completely absorbed in taking photos from my mobile phone.

I shoot with a Canon 5D Mark III.

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

I love Instagram and photography.

I can tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment. A moment that is vital to give the viewer a sensation of liveliness, sadness, joy and so on.